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[This post originally ran on September 19th, 2009 on my previous blog]

As many of my friends know, I’ve had a big love for the new Camaro. Rumors that this was solely due to my love of Transformers were greatly exaggerated. If anything, the Michael Bay POS almost turned me off completely.

However, I still liked the car, and Vibha and I had been talking about buying American next, so I tried to go shopping, with the operative word being “tried”. The experience was bad and gave me inspiration to mention it with Joel Achenbach of Achenblog fame asked if I wanted to guest post.

So I did, and it was published in July while we went to Quebec:

Guest Kit: Why Can’t I Buy a Camaro? 

The reverberations on the Internet is something that many talk about, but it is very interesting to see when it was your source material that started it.

There was some quality blogging using my guest post as source material:

WaPo blogger wants to buy Camaro, gets dealer runaround instead

Remember when you could just go to the dealer and buy a car?

One clip and comment:

May I Please Buy A Camaro Now?

And a whole other set of coverage including
a Facebook note, a repost of the autoblog within a forum, a link in a BusinessWeek blog, and a former car saleman’s viewpoint.

And of course a simple cut and paste jobs:

Government Motors screws up, tries to catch horse after barn door falls off; anybody surprised?

In fact, the Autoblog piece had as many comments as the WaPo piece. That’s shocking.

As some of the blogs mentioned, I was contacted by Chevy PR (via Twitter) the day it was posted. It took a little while to find a test drive window, but we found one and I did indeed get my test drive.

And I then did this follow up after I got the test drive:

Guest Kit: The Camaro Saga, Continued

I think it is fair to say that the follow up didn’t have quite the reaction. Sometimes you hit, and sometimes you don’t online.

Aside from the amazing research experience to see the first post hit, I did end up eventually buying a car, a 2009 Cadillac CTS-V. It is great, an amazing car to drive, and with a great interior and set of features. And it looks great!